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In 1879 Wilhelm Wundt, first experimental laboratory in psychology at the University of Leipzig, Germany.
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The first ever doctarate of Psychology was given to Joseph Jastrow,who also later serves as president of the American Psychological Association in 1900.
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Mary Whiton Calkins was the first woman president of the APA,(The American Psychological Association).
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Alfred Binet was the first person to create and intelegance test,he was also a French psychologist.
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Francis Sumner is the first African American man to recive a doctorate in psychology. Sumner later serves as chair of the Howard University psychology department.
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When the Nazis gains control of the government in Germany, scholars in psychology are persecuted, whose books are banned and burned in public rallies, move to Britain or the United States
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Walter Freeman performs first frontal lobotomy in the United States.
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Studies how that Imiparimine would help lessen the effects of depression. The FDA approves its use in the United States under the name Tofranil.
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The anti-psychotic drug chlorpromazine is tested on a patients and it becomes widely prescribed.
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After a while discussing it,Pyshcologists decided that,sexual orientation "does not necessarily constitute a psychiatric disorder."
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PET (Positron Emission Tomography) is first tested by tracing chemical markers.
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The Iq tests found that it only judged the White Majority. Obviously becoming a problem
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This act was passed after John Hinckley, Jr.'s acquittal for the Reagan assassination attempt. Making it way harder for anyone to be pronounced innocent because of insanity.
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The rough draft for the Human Genome was created.
